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Old English Dictionary Entry

Streówness

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1 streówness

f. Bedding, what is spread to lie on :-- Ðá bǽdon hine his discipulos ðæt hié móstan húru sume streównesse him under gedón for his untrumnesse; ða cwæð hé: ' Bearn, ne bidde gé ðæs; ne gedafenaþ cristenan men ðæt hé elles dó, bútan swá hé efne on axan and on duste licge, Blickl. Homl. 227, 12. streowness
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛏᚱᛖᚩᚹᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc